Chapter 474, the giant bandits surround Anshu
Zhang Yuanyuan gritted his teeth and roared, so that his subordinates must resist. However, Wang Changlong led his troops to fight to the death, and his courage should not be underestimated. What's more, Xie Pengcheng next to him came up with 4,000 troops to outflank him? Zhang Yuanyuan's heart was in turmoil, and when he was panicking, he suddenly heard a cannon in the city, and saw that the west gate was wide open, and a team rushed out, obviously to save himself. Zhang Yuanyuan was overjoyed and shouted: "Brothers, resist it, reinforcements are coming!"
The bandits in Jiejia Mountain were panicking, and suddenly heard that reinforcements were coming, and they also fought fiercely for their lives, resisting the attack of Wang Changlong's department to the death. Here, Yujiang Captain Gu Yuanli led a thousand elite soldiers out of the west gate of Yujiang County, shouting and rushing behind Wang Changlong. Xie Pengcheng stayed to guard the camp Captain Zhao Daxi was anxious, if this battle was lost, what was the point of holding the camp?
Zhao Daxi left a halberd commander to lead two hundred people, prepared more bows and arrows to guard the camp, and he pounced on it with eight hundred strong men, biting Gu Yuanli who wanted to attack Wang Changlong, and called for killing on both sides. Hao Wenzhao, the magistrate of Yujiang County at the head of the city, saw that Gu Yuanli's 1,000 soldiers and horses were intercepted and killed by Zhao Daxi, and he stomped his feet in a hurry at the head of the city, and couldn't stop crying bitterly.
Zhang Yuanyuan originally had great hopes for the reinforcements coming out of the city, but when he saw that the reinforcements were intercepted and killed, his heart immediately cooled down. Zhang Yuanyuan took a look at the situation on the battlefield and found that it was extremely unfavorable to his side.
Seeing that the situation is grim, his side has no chance of winning, Zhang Yuanyuan decided to close the formation, his subordinate Flying Bear Army after several years of training, after a long time in battle, invincible, the officers and troops are invincible, today can not just lose all of them, this is the most important capital for him in Jiannan, Zhang Yuanyuan drank the order Ming Jin, and the bandits in Jiejiashan heard the collection of troops, and they all quickly moved closer to the Chinese army, although they were defeated but not chaotic.
Zhang Yuanyuan gathered the crowd to hold on, and fought and retreated, after Wang Changlong led his subordinates to chase out of Wulidi, he ordered no longer to pursue, and if he continued to fight, it would be nothing more than a defeat for both sides, and now the task of stopping Zhang Yuanyuan has been achieved, there is no need to fight hard, Wang Changlong personally broke off, so that the Anshu soldiers and horses, who were only defeated, returned to the western suburbs of Yujiang again. Xie Pengcheng's troops saw that Wang Changlong had stopped pursuing, and he did not dare to take risks alone, and then began to retreat.
On the western outskirts of Yujiang City, the army of Gu Yuanli, the captain of Yujiang, and the army of Zhao Daxi, the captain of Zhiguo of Lianshan County, strangled together, the two armies were fighting, Zhao Daxi and Gu Yuanli had fought for fifty rounds, both of them were tired and tired, Zhao Daxi saw that the eight hundred strong men of Lianshan County were gradually exhausted, and when they were anxious, Wang Changlong and Xie Pengcheng came back with the main force to kill.
When people like to be in good spirits, Zhao Daxi roared, "Brothers, the reinforcements are back, rush me!" The morale of the eight hundred heroes was suddenly boosted, and the situation immediately reversed, and they began to chase and kill Gu Yuanli's army. Gu Yuanli saw that the enemy was strong, Zhang Yuanyuan's army had disappeared, and he was already alone, knowing that he couldn't please today, he hurriedly turned his horse's head and withdrew to the west gate of Yujiang County with four or five hundred remnants.
Where is Zhao Daxi willing to let him go, with 800 strong men in pursuit, he must take advantage of the situation to seize Yujiang County.
At the head of the city, Hao Wenzhao, the magistrate of the county, saw that Gu Yuanli was defeated, and Zhang Yuanyuan, who came to reinforce, had also led his troops to flee away, and his hands and feet were suddenly frightened and his hands and feet were cold and disheartened, Hao
Wen Zhao looked up to the sky and sighed, and muttered, "It's over!
Zhu Changliang, the master standing next to him, saw that Hao Zhixian was already panicking, and he already had an idea in his heart. In fact, Zhu Changliang didn't like Niu Mandi in his heart, but Hao Wenzhao was loyal to Niu Mandi, so he had to do his duty as a master and help him defend the city.
Yujiang County originally had 4,000 garrisons, but 3,000 were transferred from Niu Mandi, and only 1,000 soldiers and horses were left to defend the city. After Xie Pengcheng of Lianshan County heard that Yujiang was empty, he immediately abandoned Luye City and led the army to surround Yujiang.
Just now, Gu Yuanli ordered a thousand elite soldiers to go out of the city, at this time, the people and officials who were protecting the city were all strong and servants, not to mention the low combat effectiveness, seeing that Captain Gu had lost the battle, his morale was even lowered, and he saw that the county lord was panicked, and his heart was scattered.
Zhu Changliang stepped forward and bowed his hand to the magistrate: "My lord, the art of war is cloudy, if you can fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will defend, if you can't go, you will fall, and if you can't fall, you will die! Now that the situation is critical, we might as well surrender! I see that although Niu Mandi has great ambitions, he has great ambitions and sparse talents. And Tang Jiusheng, the king of Wei, is a vassal king appointed by the imperial court, and we are not ashamed to surrender to the king of Wei, it is better to open the city and surrender as soon as possible, otherwise if the others break the city, it will inevitably be burned!"
Hao Wenzhao was already six gods and had no master, and when he heard Zhu Changliang say this, he immediately nodded and said, "Okay! According to the master's wishes, raise the white flag, let's lower!" Immediately, some of his subordinates agreed, lifted a piece of white cloth tied to the pole, and shook it at the head of the city. Gu Yuanli was running to the west gate of the city with four or five hundred remnants of soldiers, anxious like a lost dog, busy like a fish that has slipped through the net, and when he was still four or five hundred steps away from the suspension bridge, he suddenly looked up and saw a flag raised at the head of the city.
Gu Yuanli stopped his horse and sighed, "There is still Weng City in the city, I took four or five hundred people back to the city, I may not have the strength to defend the city, why bother to surrender? Now there is no way out, there are chasing soldiers behind, I, Gu Yuanli, am deeply favored by Lord Niu, I can't surrender to the enemy, it is better to cut it off by myself, so as not to be humiliated!" After speaking, he drew his sword and killed himself, and died under the city. The four or five hundred remnants of the army lost their main general, and immediately made a mess and surrendered on their knees.
Captain Zhao Daxi was really overjoyed, dismounted and cut off Gu Yuanli's head, accepting the surrender of these remnants. Wang Changlong then arrived, and when he saw that Gu Yuanli had already killed himself, he couldn't help but sigh. Immediately led troops into the city first and accepted the surrender of Hao Zhixian. Xie Pengcheng then followed up in the city, Xie Pengcheng felt that it was Yujiang that he led his troops to besiege first, but at this time, Wang Changlong robbed him of the credit, and he was inevitably unhappy and complained.
At this time, it was past noon, Wang Changlong arrived at the county yamen, took over the silver treasury, and spent three months' salary and silver to his subordinates, and then ordered someone to seal the silver treasury. Counting his soldiers and horses, about 1,000 people were killed and wounded. As usual, the deceased are bereaved and the injured are sent to the hospital.
After arranging his soldiers, Wang Changlong heard that his subordinates said that Xie Pengcheng had a lot of complaints, so he personally invited Xie Pengcheng to the third hall of the county government, and called Hao Zhixian as well, and the three of them took it
Wine chat. Wang Changlong said with a smile: "Captain Xie doesn't have to worry, you went to Yujiang first, and you also contributed a lot when you broke the enemy, I, Wang, am a person close to King Wei, how can I rob you of your credit?"
Wang Changlong called the marching master Bo and asked him to draft a letter of merit to the palace in person, in which Xie Pengcheng was greatly praised, and in front of Xie Pengcheng, he sealed the letter of merit and sent it to the palace immediately. When Xie Pengcheng saw Wang Changlong like this, he was immediately grateful and ashamed, got up to toast Wang Changlong, apologized repeatedly, said that he was ignorant, and asked Captain Wang to forgive.
Wang Changlong didn't care, and encouraged Xie Pengcheng, and said: "We are all people who work for King Wei, and we are all brothers on our shoulders, so what else do we share with each other? In the future, let's work together to follow King Wei, make immortal achievements, and it is my Wang Changlong's wish to go down in history!"
That night, Wang Changlong, Xie Pengcheng, and Hao Zhixian were drunk. The next day, Wang Changlong ordered someone to bury Gu Yuanli, the self-killed captain, and took over the defense in Yujiang County, and trained soldiers with Xie Pengcheng in Yujiang to rest the army in preparation for another battle. The two armies rested at the Yujiang River for five days. Because there was an order from the Qianwei Palace, once the Yujiang River was taken, Xie Pengcheng's troops had to rush to Luye as originally planned.
Xie Pengcheng was also ready to go to Luye City to assist Cheng Rugao according to the military order of the Wei Wangfu. At this time, Wang Changlong received a message from the flying pigeon of the Wei Wangfu, saying that there were tens of thousands of giant bandits besieging Anshu City, and asked Xie Pengcheng to lead troops to support Anshu, ignoring Luye first, and Yujiang County was taken over by Wang Changlong. Xie Pengcheng got the military order, and immediately led 5,000 soldiers and horses out of the city and rushed straight to Anshu to relieve the siege of Anshu.
Wang Changlong sits in Yujiang, only focusing on defense, and daily government affairs are still handled by Hao Zhixian and his master Zhu Changliang, Hao Zhixian is unexpected, and he is also grateful to Wang Changlong in his heart.
After Zhang Yuanyuan was defeated and retreated in the western suburbs of Yujiang County, his troops retreated for 40 miles before he dared to stop and check the people, and after the check, there were more than 2,000 casualties. Fortunately, the grain and grass team was dozens of miles behind, otherwise it would have been served to a pot. Thousands of people have run out of food and grass, aren't they blind? Zhang Yuanyuan scolded loudly: "This Wang Changlong is really a madman!" Since then, Wang Changlong has earned the nickname of Wang Lunatic.
Xu Zichu, a think tank with the army, offered a plan: "Lord of the village, since we can't take Xie Pengcheng's department, we don't have to go to Luye City, I'm afraid the enemy has already been prepared." Let's just kill Anshu County directly! Anyway, Lord Niu has already invited the cottages in Dufeng Mountain and other places to besiege Anshu, so we might as well go to the muddy water to fish, if we succeed, it will also be a great achievement, no less significant than taking the Yujiang River!"
Zhang Yuanyuan thought about it, thought so, so he rested the army, and went straight to Anshu, and when he arrived outside Anshu City, the one-eyed Ji Tianda, the lord of Dufeng Mountain Dazhai, had already led seven thousand bandits to the west gate of Anshu City for two days, and He Yongjiang, the lord of the old Longshan Dazhai, led an army of five thousand to surround the north gate of Anshu County, and when the two giant bandits were planning to attack the city, Zhang Yuanyuan also led his troops to come.
Ji Tianda and He Yongjiang were overjoyed, and asked Zhang Yuanyuan to lead troops to block the east gate of Anshu City, leaving only the south gate, and ambushed a group of thousands of elite soldiers, ready to besiege the city and send reinforcements. Zhang Yuanyuan was secretly happy in his heart, as long as everyone could work together to win Anshu County, it would be a great achievement, and he forgot the advice of Qiao Chongliang, the owner of the second village, before he left.
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